RADAR

This workbook provides data about exceptions to undergraduate major requirements for graduates since Summer 2014. This includes total exception counts for current and past major versions, exceptions/awards with comparisons to Field of Study in School/College averages, counts of exceptions according to major requirement, as well as by courses used in substitution.

Because of current data availability, this visualization is limited to Degree Programs and Additional Majors granted by L&S and CALS. Degree awards are only counted here for students who's exceptions are recorded in DARS and who have valid DARS audits. Some students in old Major versions or in Majors not tracked by DARS are omitted. For this reason, users who need official Major award counts should get those from Trends in Degrees and Related Data.

Exception Counts

This visualization contains exceptions applied to the Requirements in Majors of undergraduate graduates.  For exceptions in which more than one course was used to satisfy the Requirement, each course counts as one exception.  Exceptions do not count if they were processed but did not modify a Requirement in the student’s actual Major (for instance, if the student changed major version or Named Option and so no longer needs the exception).  

Major and Requirement Versions

The 'Exceptions and Exceptions/Award' tab shows data for all Major versions and Requirement versions, with previous Major versions represented with yellow and the current version represented with red.  The 'Exceptions by Requirement' and 'Exceptions by Substituted Course' default to the current Major and Requirement versions, but allow for selection of any set of versions. When switching between Majors, these filters may need to be adjusted if particular Major/Requirement versions were excluded in the previous Major. When moving from a Major with Named Options to another Major, the 'Named Option' filter must be reset to the '----' (no option) value.  In 'Exceptions by Requirement' and 'Exceptions by Substituted Course' '---' also represents exceptions for which no Subrequirement or course applied.

Courses

All offerings of active Crosslisted courses are listed throughout the visualization under a single offering (Subject and Catalog #), and exceptions for all of those offerings are combined. Offerings of inactive  Crosslisted courses are not combined, and are represented by the Subject and Catalog # under which the student registered.

Other Notes

Because of changes in how some honors degree programs were encoded in the CALS DARS, a few students are shown as completing the current version of the Major when in fact they completed an older version.  For instance, a few students in the Genetics and Genomics Major who graduated during the 2016-2018 academic years are labeled in this way.  However, this does not affect exception or degree award counts, only the labeling of those exceptions as in the current Major version.

Data Source

Information about the Requirements that students satisfied comes from the following Badger Analytics tables:

BASP.DARS.JOBQ_RUN
BASP.DARS.JOBQ_REQ
BASP.DARS.JOBQ_SUBREQ
 

DARS batch audit data does not contain course cross-list information, and so Course ID and cross-list information is taken from the following views in InfoAccess:

UW.COURSE_CURRENT
UW.COURSE_OFFERING

Information about students' degrees (such as Award Completion Term) are taken from:

UW.RETENTION_AWARDS_MAIN
UW.RETENTION_AWARDS_PLAN
UW.RETENTION_AWARDS_SUBPLAN

Information about student exceptions is taken from the following DARSP tables (DARS Production server):

RGDARS.STU_EXCEPTIONS

RGDARS.STU_EXC_COURSES

RGDARS.STU_MASTER

Information about Major and Requirement versions is taken from the following DARSP encoding tables:

RGDARS.DPROG
RGDARS.DPROG_REQ
RGDARS.REQ_MAIN

RGDARS.SUB_REQ

RGDARS.SUB_REQ_TEXT

RGDARS.SUB_REQ_AR